We’re excited to announce the release of Weaviate v1.38.0!
This update is packed with new features! It brings some significant enhancements and new features aimed at improving your data management experience and overall system performance.
Key Changes
HFresh (GA)
This release introduces extensive improvements with HFresh, including various performance optimizations that significantly reduce memory usage, disk writes, and allocations. These advancements will help streamline your operations and enhance query performance.
Namespaces (Preview)
The addition of namespaces introduces control-plane and data isolation between users on a shared cluster. This feature enhances security and allows for better management of your data architecture by enabling the creation and management of collections.
Nested Object Filtering (Preview)
You can now perform searches within indexed JSON properties. This capability provides greater flexibility in querying nested structures, making your data retrieval more powerful and intuitive.
Alter Schema - Reindex Property (Preview)
We’ve added support for changing property index types at runtime, which gives you more control and adaptability in managing your data schemas.
Security & Observability Enhancements
We’ve also made significant strides in security, including the introduction of a secure Built-In Model Context Protocol (MCP) server interface. This update allows AI agents to interact with Weaviate more efficiently. Additionally, we’ve improved observability features to better track user permissions and system performance.
Breaking Changes
- None
For a comprehensive overview of all changes and improvements in this release, you can check out the full release notes here: Weaviate v1.38.0 Release Notes.
We encourage you to explore these new features and enhancements to see how they can benefit your projects.
Happy coding!